## TELEGRAM TO THE KHARKOV CHIEF COAL ADMINISTRATION TO S. A. GETSOV

Source: PSS vol. 50

Kharkov, Chief Coal Administration Getsov
copy to Bazhanov, copy to Kharkov, Assistant to the Revolutionary War Council for Supply Bogdatyan or Sebrovsky, copy to Kiev, Assistant to the Revolutionary War Council for Supply Bogdatyan, copy to the People's Commissar for Military Affairs Podvoysky, Kiev, copy to Trotsky, Kamenev wherever located

The general cancellation of the mobilization of workers in the Donets Basin under the present military situation is in no way permissible. The Council of Defense takes into account the exceptional importance of the Donets Basin, and therefore has resolved to exempt from mobilization exclusively the coal cutters, even in those enterprises which for one reason or another are not currently conducting coal extraction. The preservation of the coal cutters in any case will protect the coal industry from catastrophe and will make it possible, once the exceptional circumstances have passed, to restore coal extraction anew. Any other exemptions from conscription are impossible.

Chairman of the Council of Defense Lenin

Written May 16, 1919

First published in 1925

in the journal

"Proletarian Revolution" No. 6 (41)

Printed according to the text

of the telegraph form